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And then I saw a boy denouncing his parents to the secret police, the parents walking into a cul-de-saccalled “1 + 1 = 3” and scrambling to find a way back out – a common condition halfway between creation and decay, in which wine froze on the tableand milk froze in a cow’s bulging udder, and there were torn roofs everywhereand rusted steel girders, and it was nearlyalways dark except for a single apple.

Howie Good's latest book of poetry is The Complete Absence of Twilight (2014) from MadHat Press. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely, who does most of the real work.